Canonical list of overly general domains?

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Mon Jan 8 23:06:46 UTC 2007


What about somebody take a stab at it (on the wiki, perhaps) and let  
others shoot at it?


On Jan 8, 2007, at 14:34, Adam Langley wrote:

> On 1/6/07, Daniel E. Renfer <Duck at kronkltd.net> wrote:
>> can't find a DNS entry for the domain part of the trust root then  
>> it's
>> not a good candidate for a trust root.
>>
>> Maybe it's just my DNS servers, but I'm not getting a response for
>> things such as "com" or "co.uk"
>
> You mean a lack of an A record implies that it's overly general? I
> think that would have both false positives and false negatives. For
> example, googlepages.com is probably too general, but certainly has an
> A record.
>
>
> AGL
>
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Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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